The value of convenience : a genealogy of technical culture
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書誌事項
The value of convenience : a genealogy of technical culture
（SUNY series in science, technology, and society / Sal Restivo and Jennifer L. Croissant, editors）
State University of New York Press, c1993
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-273) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In this volume, Tierney identifies convenience as the value of central importance to the development of modern technical culture. While revealing modern attitudes toward technology, the human body, mortality, and necessity, Tierney focuses on the cultural value of convenience and on modern attitudes which emphasize consumption rather than production of technology.
目次
1. Introduction
2. Arendt, the Household, and Convenience
3. Marxist Perspectives on Consumption
4. Settling American Space
Marx's Insight
Setting America's Space in Order
Agriculture as a Limit of the Body
5. Setting Bodies in Motion
6. Weber, Protestantism, and Consumption
The Value of Weber's Argument
Luther and Calvin's Attitudes Toward Earthly Life
Worldly Asceticism and the Emergence of the Cage
7. Nietzsche and Modern Asceticism
8. Traces of Modern Asceticism
Hobbes and Mortality
Locke and Convenience
Marx and Necessity
9. The End of Death
Notes
Index
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